"You bastard how dare you hurt my brother!" Luigi roared, an echoey hint in his voice. Much like King Boo when royally pissed.
"No! This couldn't be how are you doing this you filthy little mortal!" Luigi's face hardened and he lifted his arm, pointing at the former king.
Lightning blinded and deafned Mario and when he looked back, he saw the former king on the ground smoking from a direct lightning strike. Luigi giggled, a long bright pink tongue lolling out of his mouth. He was taking on more traits of a Boo as the second passed!
"And you called me weak. Whatever made you think I would bow to one as pitiful as you? Sure, you tricked me. AH! Got me!" Luigi giggled again hands against his chest and Peach slowly backed away from him, looking worried.
"Lu. Lu stop it." Luigi was immediately in his face pulling him up from the ground.
"Stop? Why the fun's just started! This jerk tricked me for weeks, gah I was so stupid! But now? Now I'm so powerful and I can make him pay for what he did to me!" Mario's heart skipped as his brother's rare smirk was now fanged, razor-sharp teeth that could seriously hurt if he bit. Was he still going to lose his brother? Was he going to take on the royal madness and forget whose side he was on? The vows he'd taken to protect kingdoms?
"Luigi!" Luigi let him go, Mario would dare say gently to the ground. Peach rushed to his side as they watched Luigi come up to his husband who was trapped. He'd distracted Luigi but what could they possibly do to stop this change?
"Oh no. Tsk. You look like you're all wrapped up!" Luigi let out a truly maniacal laugh and King Boo's face darkened.
"Put him in a portrait-you have the power to. That way you can play with him as long as you like." Luigi tilted his head and placed a gloved hand on his elbow and the other on his face in a thinking posture.
"I could do that couldn't I why thank you Boo for such a lovely idea." And he was moving to the former king who was still lying face down on the ground. A portrait suddenly popped up next to the ghost before it sucked him in, and Luigi turned back to them-the Portrait clattered against the ground before igniting in purplish flames and Luigi let out a breathy sigh, falling to the ground in a heap like a puppet with its strings cut.
Mario ran to his brother fear coating his throat, he couldn't have lost Luigi no. No way was that going to happen! Luigi looked peaceful and thankfully still breathing.
"What happened?" Peach said helping Boo out of the plant. The king brushed his hands together, eyes intent on the burning portrait.
"My father started the ritual and being dragged into the portrait would have halted the ritual since it wasn't finished." How sure was he that it was finished? Because Luigi looked a lot like King Boo did and his powers had gotten stronger than ever. What if Boo was wrong and Luigi was a boo now?
"Luigi?" Peach uttered and Mario turned back to see she'd moved to his brother; Luigi was sitting up looking dazed and a bit confused. His hair was still long but it had gone back to the brown he was used to seeing, his eyes were an eerie shade of green that reminded Mario of Luigi's lightning.
"You fool how could you have possibly mistaken him for me and gone with him? He would have killed you!" Boo hissed and Luigi's eyes dimmed, but he knew that look. That was the look Luigi had the day he'd gotten suspended from high school for fighting.